Psychosocial and Economic Status of the Parents with Children with and without Tooth Trauma.

Background: The main goal of this research is to try and understand influence of psychological and social factors in children with tendencies to repeat tooth trauma.

Subjects And Methods: Research included 147 patients, children of preschool and school age (88 boys and 59 girls). In the research patients were divided in two age groups: 5-8 and 9-12 years.

The use of assessment tools in a sample of Croatian professional fire-fighters.

Background: This article aims at testing of psychometric characteristics of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Defense Style Questionnaire - 40 (DSQ-40) in a sample of Croatian professional fire-fighters, so as to justify their use in Occupational Health. A pioneer effort to interrelate mental states and psychological job demands, ranked using the WAI questionnaire, was made as well.

Subjects And Methods: Upon informed consent, the tools were tested on a sample of 300 members of the operative fire-fighting squad of the City of Zagreb, all men (average age 43; average years of fire-fighting service 18.

Minor physical anomalies in children with hearing impairment and normal controls.

The aim of this research was to assess differences in the frequency of individual minor physical anomalies (MPA) between healthy controls and children with hearing impairment (HI) and to find out whether some MPAs are more informative in discriminating between two groups than cumulative Waldrop's scores. The aim was also to investigate the influence of gender on MPA in children with HI and those with normal hearing (NH). The study was carried out on a sample of 424 children (121 children with hearing impairment (82 boys and 39 girls) aged from 5 to 18 and 303 healthy schoolchildren with normal hearing (152 boys and 151 girls) aged from 8 to 16).

Why choose Lent for a "smoke out day?" Changing smoking behavior in Croatia.

Aim: To evaluate the impact on smokers' behavior of public health activity related to a religious event such as Lent in a predominantly Roman Catholic country.

Methods: "Smoke out day" was organized on the first day of Lent, a period of self-denial for Roman Catholics, combining cultural and religious significance for Croatian people. The day was covered by a massive media campaign.

Dental and minor physical anomalies in children with developmental disorders--a discriminant analysis.

A discriminant analysis was performed in a sample of 303 children with developmental disorders (DD) and 303 healthy controls (C) in order to test whether some oro-dental and physical minor anomalies could discriminate these groups of children. DD sample comprised 176 mentally retarded (MR) children. 70 children with impaired hearing (IH) and 57 children with impaired vision (IV).

[Minor physical anomalies in children with hearing impairment].

The prevalence of minor physical anomalies was studied on a sample of 116 children with idiopathic hearing impairment (66 boys and 50 girls). The control group consisted of 246 children with normal hearing (123 boys and 123 girls) aged from 8 to 12 years. The number of minor anomalies found per child (W1) was compared and the sum of the weighted scores according to Waldrop (W2) in children with normal hearing (CNH) and children with impaired hearing (CIH).